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• Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Voice, Pieces, Rehearsal

  Benjamin Franklin (1818). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography”, p.114

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• Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Leader

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

  Carlson Gracie

  Winning, Victory, Enemy

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• Reading is the journey of those who can not take the train

  Francis de Croisset

  Reading, Journey, Train

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• Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest weights, but I can not take the responsibility off my shoulders. Because the way we use our strength defines our fate. What traces will I leave on my path into the future? Do we really have to kill in order to live? My true strength lies in not seeing weakness as weakness. My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

  Patrik Baboumian

  Lying, Responsibility, Fate

  "Patrik Baboumian: My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion". www.riseofthevegan.com. January 12, 2016.

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• A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Husband, Wife

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• That can not possibly be, because it could never possibly be.

  Anton Chekhov

  "A Letter to a Learned Neighbor". Short story by Anton Chekhov, March 9, 1880.

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• Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

  Anton Corbijn

  Important, Body, Language

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, People, Suffering

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• Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.

  Ala Bashir

  Reality, Men, Drawing

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• All earth's full rivers can not fillThe sea that drinking thirsteth still.

  Christina Rossetti

  Drinking, Sea, Rivers

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.1293, Delphi Classics

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• The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

  Herman Melville

  Fiction, Fables, Facts

  Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard (2000). “The Poems of Herman Melville”, p.32, Kent State University Press

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• Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Solitude, Unbearable, Bears

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Thinking, Hateful, Speak

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.

  Charles James Fox

  Kings, Army, People

  "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 125), 1997.

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• The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.

  Will Cuppy

  Zebras, Believe, Fall

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.

  Margaret Mead

  Contentment, Pay

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• If you think you can - you can !
  If you think you can not - you can not !
  And either way........you are right !

  Shiv Khera

  Thinking, Way, You Can Win

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• If I can not dance, I shall die!

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Dies

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• We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.

  Zach Wamp

  Korea, World, Causes

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• I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

  Steven Spielberg

  Divorce, Scams, Committed

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 17, 2002.

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• I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

  Maurice Sendak

  Hate, Book, May

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• of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Strong, Practice

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• The highest, most decisive experience is to be alone with one's own self. You must be alone to find out what supports you, when you find that you can not support yourself. Only this experience can give you an indestructible foundation.

  Carl Jung

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Self

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• Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you." Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you." Abby: "Intimidating? Me?" Dylan: "It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable of handling anything that comes along... It isn't easy for a man to believe that there are woman who can not only do those things but enjoy them... [But] it's all natural for you isn't it? It's incredible.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Men, Abby

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